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chandragupta maurya
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an ambitious adventurere who during the late 320s bce laid the foundation for the mauryan empire
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bactria
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alenxander of macedon's imperial heirs who had mingled w/ local populations sicne establishing an independent bactrian kingdom in the 3rd century bce
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arthashastra
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asncient indian political treatise from teht ime of chandragupta maurya, its authorship was traditionally ascribed to kautalya, and it stressed that war was inevitable
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guptas
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indian dynasty (320-550) that briefly reunited india after the collapse of the earlier mauryan dynasty
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brahmins
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hindu caste of priests
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kshatriyas
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hindu caste of warriors and aristocrats
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vaishyas
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hindu caste of cultivators, artisans, and merchants
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shudras
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hindu caste of landless peasetns and serfs
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jati
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indian word for a hindu subcaste
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ahimsa
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jain term for the principle of nonviolence to other living thigns or their souls
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siddhartha gautama
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indian kshatriya who achieved enlightenment and becomeknown as teh buddha, the founder of buddhism
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buddha
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the "enlightened one" the term applied to siddhartha gautama after his discoveries taht would from the foundation of buddhism
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dharma
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hindu concept of obedience to religoius and moral law and order
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vernacular
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the language of the people
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stupa
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buddhist shrine
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boddhisatvas
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buddhist concept regarding inidviduals who had reached enlightenment but who stayed in this world tohelp people
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bhagavad gita
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"song of the lord" and indian short poetic work drawn from the lengty mahhabharata that was finished around 400 ce and that expressed basic hinidu concepts such as karma and dharma
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vishnu
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hindu god, preserver of the world, who was often incarnated as krishna
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